Fantasmagoria by Rick Wayne

Author:Rick Wayne [Wayne, Rick]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Rick Wayne
Published: 2014-03-12T05:00:00+00:00

(TWENTY-ONE) What Lurks under the Bed

“Hey! How did it go with Yuni--Damn, man . . . What happened to you?”

“Nothing.”

“Like hell. Your eye is all bruised. Is that dried blood on your arm?”

“I don’t want to talk about it.”

“Okay. But look, you should go to the hospital.”

“I’ve been to the hospital, all right? I just came from there. Can we just drop it? I just want one drink and then I’m going home.”

“Should you really be drin--Okay, have a drink.”

“I am.”

“It’s just . . . the Empire’s here.”

“Yup.”

“Aren’t you worried?”

“I just want to have a drink.”

“Okay.”

“I don’t want to talk.”

“Okay.”

“Then I’m going home.”

“Okay.”

“Besides, they’re gonna start with the aminals anyway.”

“What makes you say that?”

“I heard the cops talking.”

“Cops? What cops?”

“At the police station.”

“When were you at the police station?”

“Before the hospital.”

“No shit? What the fuck happened?”

“I told you, I don--”

“Fuck that shit. This has something to do with that ’noid, doesn’t it?”

“Stop calling her that.”

“Okay, but answer the question.”

“You know I don’t like it when you call her that. Why do you always have to be a jerk? I mean, I’m obviously upset. Are you really so stupid that you can’t see I’m hurt? I tell you I’ve been to the hospital. I’ve been arrested for fuck’s sake. And then you go and say that. I hate you. I fucking hate your guts, and I wish you’d just leave me the fuck alone.”

“Hey . . . man. Look. I’m sorry, all right? I didn’t know you got arrested.”

“Why else would I be at the FUCKING POLICE STATION?”

“Look, calm down. I don’t know. I thought maybe you went to report that money stolen, or the tickets.”

“Oh.”

“Yeah, I was gonna be all excited that you stoo--you know, that you were lookin’ out for yourself.”

“Okay.”

“Yeah, like I was gonna buy you a drink even. I still will, okay?”

“No, it’s all right. I mean, that kinda makes sense.”

“I’m sorry, man. I really am.”

“I’m sorry I yelled.”

“No, it’s okay. And if you don’t wanna talk about it . . . Hey, I got your back.”

“She wasn’t there.”

“Where?”

“At the club. I couldn’t find her when I went to give her the poem, so I went to her apartment. I figured I’d wait. And I did. For a really long time. Like a half hour or something.”

“What happened?”

“I was sitting there in the hall, catching mean glances from the neighbors that went by, and I got to thinking about what you said.”

“Me?”

“Yeah. And I thought maybe there was something to what you said. But I had that poem, ya know?”

“Yeah. It was really good, too.”

“I wanted her to have it. I spent a lot of time on it. I was gonna slip it under the door so she’d find it, but then I realized I didn’t put my name on it or anything. And I didn’t want her to read it and think Dobie had written it and then have her fall in love with him.”

“No way Dobe could write something like that.”

“And I didn’t have a

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